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North American construction is back—smaller and faster—at OPG’s Darlington
“The nuclear renaissance is real here,” said Ontario Power Generation’s Subo Sinnathamby on May 8, one year to the day after OPG secured a final investment decision to build the first of four planned BWRX-300 reactors at its Darlington nuclear power plant, and shortly after the new reactor’s foundation was lifted into place. “We got our license to construct in April and our [final investment decision] in May, and we’ve been off to the races since.”
Takehiko Yokomine, Akihiko Shimizu, Masamitsu Okuzono
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 2 | March 2001 | Pages 1028-1032
Safety and Environment | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A11963378
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In order to investigate the applicability of a thermophoresis dust removal system for fusion plasma devices, the exact estimation of the thermophoretic force acting on discrete dust particle is required. In order to make up for the lack of experimental data, the thermophoretic force acting on a fine spherical particle suspended between the two parallel plates has been measured. In all conventional analyses, it is assumed that the particle is placed and stands still at the center of the confined plates. When the particle is positioned at the center of the plates, the experimental data agrees with the conventional analysis as the asymptotic behavior. On the other hand, when the particle is deviated from the center of the plates, the experimental data shows the different behavior from the analytical formula.